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An illustrated world in the making01 / Ravel
The Veyne estate, Ravel. An architectural exploration.

VerdantWilds.

A city built over its own past. People trying to hold on to each other. A world still taking shape.

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Veyne / Ravel

A house built around a living tree.

At the Veyne estate, the tree is trained and restrained. The galleries give visitors a view of the family’s skill, and of its need for control.

01 / Selected discoveries

There is a life behind every detail.

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Black roots spiral past tiny red doorways in an artist’s unsettling vision of the Growth.
Art & belief

The Growth, imagined

Three unequal shaped pieces make the space between them the centre of the sculpture.
Objects

An opening between three planes

An entire hillside fits inside a single leaf. A Highscar artist’s imagined landscape.
Art & belief

A hillside in a leaf

Take your time. Look around.

A home, a favourite coat, a painting someone paid far too much for. Verdant grows through the lives of its inhabitants, and through the questions that make it worth building.

02 / Inside the making

Who gets to be enormous?

Building a world that feels lived in means going back into its past. Here’s what happened when I tried to put a painting in the Dorrans’ living room.

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Haren opens the road. A proposed painting for the Dorran family home.

02 / From the workroom

The decisions behind the drawings.

The discoveries, wrong turns and small decisions behind Verdant Wilds. With the images and working notes to look closer.

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03 / People

A world is only as alive as its people.

Pell’s funeral clothing, in a character and costume study.
Character study

Pell

A chameleon working with light, memory and the people left behind.

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04 / The studio

A little outside the story.

The characters can leave their world for a moment. Here, they join the work of making it: looking at drawings, asking difficult questions, and occasionally getting in the way.

Inside the studio
From inside an open portfolio, Pell reaches toward us in an optical-print T-shirt and plum overshirt.
A collection of studies, not a comic chapter.
05 / The comic

The story is coming.

Verdant Wilds is a comic in the making. The first chapters will be available to read here when they are ready. Until then, the doors to the workroom are open.

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